Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IF YOU BUT KNEW, by ANONYMOUS Last Line: Could you but learn? Subject(s): Love - Unrequited | ||||||||
If you but knew How all my days seemed filled with dreams of you, How sometimes in the silent night Your eyes thrill through me with their tender light, How oft I hear your voice when others speak, How you 'mid other forms I seek -- Oh, love more real than though such dreams were true If you but knew. Could you but guess How you alone make all my happiness, How I am more than willing for your sake To stand alone, give all and nothing take, Nor chafe to think you bound while I am free, Quite free, till death, to love you silently, Could you but guess. Could you but learn How when you doubt my truth I sadly yearn To tell you all, to stand for one brief space Unfettered, soul to soul, as face to face, To crown you king, my king, till life shall end, My lover and likewise my truest friend, Would you love me, dearest, as fondly in return, Could you but learn? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNET by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON TUTTO E SCIOLTO by JAMES JOYCE APPULDURCOMBE PARK by AMY LOWELL TALE OF THE MAYOR'S SON by GLYN MAXWELL ELEGY FOR AN ENEMY by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET ESSAY ON WHAT I THINK ABOUT MOST by ANNE CARSON TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
|